Following up on yesterday’s post regarding the contamination of the US rice supply by an unapproved genetically engineered rice, here’s a quote from ‘Food Safety Now!’, the Autumn 2006 newsletter of The Center for Food Safety.

‘The rice contamination is but one in a string of incidents putting USDA’s ability to regulate and properly oversee GE crops under scrutiny. In December of 2005, the USDA’s own Inspector General issued a scathing report detailing numerous violations of agency rules in regulating genetically engineered crop field trials. USDA officials did not know the locations of many field trials it was charged with regulating, and did not conduct required inspections of others. As recently as August, a federal district judge in Hawaii ruled that USDA violated two federal laws in granting permits to grow experimental drug-producing genetically engineered crops in Hawaii. In his decision, the judge said USDA acted in “utter disregard” of the Endangered Species Act.’

US food safety authorities have taken no action to protect consumers or farmers from the boitech industry’s contamination threats. To read more from The Center for Food Safety, head on over to their website.

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